Does Quotes

“Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing

The world is full of women
who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself
if they had the chance. Quit dancing.
Get some self-respect
and a day job.
Right. And minimum wage,
and varicose veins, just standing
in one place for eight hours
behind a glass counter
bundled up to the neck, instead of
naked as a meat sandwich.
Selling gloves, or something.
Instead of what I do sell.
You have to have talent
to peddle a thing so nebulous
and without material form.
Exploited, they'd say. Yes, any way
you cut it, but I've a choice
of how, and I'll take the money.

I do give value.
Like preachers, I sell vision,
like perfume ads, desire
or its facsimile. Like jokes
or war, it's all in the timing.
I sell men back their worst suspicions:
that everything's for sale,
and piecemeal. They gaze at me and see
a chain-saw murder just before it happens,
when thigh, ass, inkblot, crevice, tit, and nipple
are still connected.
Such hatred leaps in them,
my beery worshipers! That, or a bleary
hopeless love. Seeing the rows of heads
and upturned eyes, imploring
but ready to snap at my ankles,
I understand floods and earthquakes, and the urge
to step on ants. I keep the beat,
and dance for them because
they can't. The music smells like foxes,
crisp as heated metal
searing the nostrils
or humid as August, hazy and languorous
as a looted city the day after,
when all the rape's been done
already, and the killing,
and the survivors wander around
looking for garbage
to eat, and there's only a bleak exhaustion.

Speaking of which, it's the smiling
tires me out the most.
This, and the pretense
that I can't hear them.
And I can't, because I'm after all
a foreigner to them.
The speech here is all warty gutturals,
obvious as a slam of ham,
but I come from the province of the gods
where meaning are lilting and oblique.
I don't let on to everyone,
but lean close, and I'll whisper:
My mothers was raped by a holy swan.
You believe that? You can take me out to dinner.
That's what we tell all the husbands.
There sure are a lot of dangerous birds around.

Not that anyone here
but you would understand.
The rest of them would like to watch me
and feel nothing. Reduce me to components
as in a clock factory or abattoir.
Crush out the mystery.
Wall me up alive
in my own body.
They'd like to see through me,
but nothing is more opaque
than absolute transparency.
Look - my feet don't hit the marble!
Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising,
I hover six inches in the air
in my blazing swan-egg of light.
You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”
― Margaret Atwood, Morning In The Burned House: Poems

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Success does not come to a person’s life by chance; you have to fight for it”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Yesterday, I was feeling fine... I was into the mood of eating... drinking... but today... I am not interested into eating or drinking or walking... watching... nothing... how does that happen?
...


Am I dieing?”
― Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel

“Covidiot: Definition – A person that does not isolate during a pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Fraudulent money schemes are prevalent in the society”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is faken okay, I will know that he is alive, but who knows?? I haven't met him after I lost him, you met your son didn't you?? And then you lost him, it sounds fair does it?? (Storm Of The Century by Stephen King)”
― Deyth Banger

“People want to kill rain and truth... if you kill it what does it left??? A naked world, am I right?”
― Deyth Banger

“Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is that you will die soon and you will be out of the Matrix!”
― Deyth Banger

“After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?”
― Deyth Banger

“It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“One day you gonna find out that you can't shout... nobody does listens to you.”
― Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel

“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Kira is our god,
That's who does in this world justice,
It's not KARMA!”
― Deyth Banger, The Diary 2

“There is nothing that the thought does, that the body cannot do the same.”
― Alan Maiccon

“It is often a person that does not understand risk that states ‘We will rebuild’.”
― Steven Magee

“It is well known that trickle down economics does not work for the masses.”
― Steven Magee